Georgian president not allowed into Adjaria March 15, 2004 17:07 The motorcade carrying the president, the interior minister and other officials was stopped at a checkpoint on the Adjarian border.
Former deputy head of Kabardino-Balkarian State Trade Inspection turns to UN Commission on Human Rights March 13, 2004 14:00 Asya Gogunkova told she had been contesting her dismissal as the deputy head of the State Trade Inspection of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria for three years already.
Local television no longer broadcasts programs in Kabardian and Balkarian languages March 13, 2004 13:58 A press conference was held at the Center for the Protection of Human Rights on March 11. It focused on the situation that has arisen at the republican Kabalkteleradio company, which has broadcasted no programs in the Kabardian and Balkarian languages since January.
International Working Group to Search for the Missing and Hostages to be dismissed March 13, 2004 13:56 The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it from the Group's Karabakh coordinator.
Press conference "Mikhail Trepashkin Is a Political Prisoner in Putin's Russia" held in Moscow March 13, 2004 13:48 Mikhail Trepashkin, a former officer of special services and known lawyer, was arrested in October 2003. He was charged with disclosing state secrets.
Article 19 conducts training on media monitoring in Tskhinvali March 13, 2004 13:46 The training for journalists and NGO activists was devoted to the work of the mass media in a pre-election period.
Participants in antiwar picket detained in Moscow March 13, 2004 13:45 The police detained Yevgeny Frumkin, Elena Batenkova, and Mikhail Kriger, who protested against the war in Chechnya. They were conveyed to the Tverskoye police department.
Woman abducted during special operation in Gudermes March 13, 2004 13:43 On the night of March 11, Khavani Usmanova, a 51-year-old local, was detained by Russian security agents in the course of "address purges" in Gudermes.
PACE delegation will not observe election of Russian president in Chechnya March 13, 2004 13:24 The situation in the republic is still "extremely difficult", said the head of the delegation, Rudolf Bindig.
Institute of Peace and Democracy calls trials against Azerbaijan oppositionists politically motivated March 12, 2004 17:58 The Institute of Peace and Democracy, an Azerbaijan human rights organization, issued a statement devoted to the trials against oppositionists arrested in the autumn of 2003.
Peace Prize award ceremony held at Tretyakov Gallery March 12, 2004 17:52 Twelve people who have been working in the field of peacemaking for a long time and have been advocating nonviolent approaches to the resolution of the Chechen conflict nominated for the prize.
New signatures under appeal for UN interim administration in Chechnya collected March 12, 2004 17:49 The meeting "For Russia Without Putin" was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 10.
Abduction of Adjarian opposition leader connected with his political activity March 12, 2004 17:38 One of the leaders of the opposition organization Democratic Adjaria, Tengiz Apkhazava, who had disappeared in Batumi several days ago, returned home at daybreak on March 11 savagely beaten.
Refugees from Sputnik camp refuse to return to Chechnya March 12, 2004 16:46 Another deadline for dismantling the Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia expired on March 10; but unsurprisingly, only 20 families left the camp.
Assassination attempts on 2 Chechen officials March 12, 2004 16:25 An assassination attempt on the Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Saduyev and Deputy Justice Minister Mussa Yevsultanov was made in Grozny.
About 150 refugee families plan to return to Chechnya from Ingushetia March 12, 2004 15:57 Meanwhile, Moscow Helsinki Group chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva said "refugees are being forced to return to Chechnya from Ingushetia."
No evidence of authorities' involvement in abduction of Arian Erkel March 12, 2004 15:46 Ali Temirbekov, press secretary of the republican prosecutor's office, announced it.
OSCE urges Georgia to cooperate with human rights agencies March 12, 2004 15:32 According to Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) official Tbilisi should use the possibility it has due to the "Rose Revolution" to establish contacts between "the electors and the elected".
Abkhazian side releases Georgian woodcutters after four months of detention March 12, 2004 15:14 By its decision, the Sukhumi Court set the detainees free from the courtroom because it saw no crime in their actions.
Unknown assailants abduct Chechen refugee in Ingushetia March 12, 2004 14:44 In the afternoon of March 10, armed men in military camouflage abducted 19-year-old Bislan Dokuyev from the Satsita refugee camp, located near Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.